River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-03-05


FLAMES in Counselman's grain ele-
s1OO OOO
The chief sanitary inspector of the
state board of health announced that
there were in New Orleans twenty-five
fully-developed cases of leprosy.
AT Irwin, Col, Mrs. Ed. Clarke and
child, Supt. Ropell and Engineer b. f.
Smily were buried beneath snowslide.
The Michigan democrats have re-
nominated John w. Champlin for SUI
p-eme Judge and Charles ). Williams
and Arthur A. Clark for regents of the
state university.
BY a vote of q to % the Kansas house
defeated the proposition TO resubmit
the prohibition amendment.
\ DAUGHTER of Frank Rufus Ccolored)
at Pine Bluff. Ark. picked up an AK
and killed her father during quarrel.
WHILE under the influence of liquor
ex-Judge Bobo, of Decatur Ind, shot
his son Roland. aged % years, infiicting
a fatal wound
IL the village of Yuma. A. T.. every
building except two was swept away
by floods In Tia Juana, Cal, not "A
building was left standing on its
foundation and several persons were
drowned.
j. C. ARNOLD, a guard, and two pris-
oners. Charles Oleson and Charles Bar
rett. were drowned at Tacoma. Wash,
by the capsizing of sailboat while at
tempting TO reach the mainland
W. II. LAWRENCE. who confessed 20
wrecking a passenger train at Boone
vile, Mo-, last November. was sem
fenced to five years in the penitentiary
THE population of Kentucky by races
was announced by the census bureau
as follows: Whites, 1855, $50: colored,
272, 9Sl: Indians. 9s; Chinese, 20; Japan
csc, l; total. 1,S5s.635.
THE death of Judge c. c. Fitch, of
Garnetsville, KY, occurred at the age
of 80 years. lie was the oldest mason
in the state.
Ar Fort Wayne. Ind, Abraham
that he could fast thirty days, gave up
after fasting twenty-five days and
losing twenty-four pounds.
Two CHILDREN of Henry Going, of
Silver Lake. Kan, were burned to
death during the absence of their
parents.
OVER the northwest the coolest
weather of the winter was prevailing,
the Thermometer ranging from TO 10
degrees below zero.
A CABLE broke at the coal mines at
Whitewell. Tenn, killing two miners
and fatally injuring seven others.
In the North Dakota legislature
bill TO repeal the prohibition law was
indefinitely postponed in the house by
vote of 90 to %.
In was sad that a regular exodus of
Mormons fir m Utah To Mexico was
quietly TAX ng place, and within the
next three months a large number of
the saints would have left
THE loss of the schooner Robert Me-
Carroll. of Chlrl, stOn. ;. c., with a
crew of five men, was reported.
By a flood at Yuma, A. T., POI houses
were ruined, 1,4O0 persons were made
penni-ess and homeless and not bust
ness house was left standing. 1t was
feared that hundreds of lives had been
lost mp the ella valley. and il was
known that thousands of cattle, horses
and mules had been drowned.
The death was reported of Col. Asa
MAY, the oldest survivor of the war of
the rebellion in Ohio, at his home in
Tiffin. aged "a years. He was the old
est member of the Grand Army of the
Republic in the country.
IL a 5; wmill at Charleston, Mo-, the
boiler exploded, killing jeff Cobb,
Charles Cobb and John Dawdv.
a BLIZZARD swept over the Cherlloee
strip. and several children were report
ed as frozen To death.
THE oldest journalist in Tennessee,
Col. W. w. Gates died at Jackson, aged
76 year
FLAMES wi..,a started in the dry
goods h u e of Byram 8 sullivan at
indianapolis, Ind, caused loss of s1OO,-
600.
WHILE resisting arrest, Milton and $.
+. Smith (brothers) were killed by Off
GERS at Temple. Miss.
ALL the mining property on the low
er part of Aspen mountain. Colorado,
has been sold to an English syndicate
for 1000, 600.