River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-24
WFST AND sOuTH.

NEAR the Nevada line robbers went
through two Pullman coaches, securing
over $500 from the passengers.
The governor of Florida has APPOINT
ed ex-COngressman Davidson to be
Williamson Call.
EXAMINATION of the books of Maj.
J. ;. O'Brien, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
embezzling treasurer of the Catholic
knights of America. develors the fact
that he is short SG4. 0O1.
1T BarbertOu, o., new three-story
building in the course Of erection sud-
denly collapsed. killing three men.
The new Southern hotel at Meridian.
Miss, costing $50. 600 and just nearing
completion, was ruined by fire, and
two fircmen were killed.
TINS year the Ohio tobacco crop will
be the largest ever raised in the state.
II birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Charles
Bellen gave birth to four children. three
girls and one bog. The mother is 20
years old.
ON the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
road near Muslzogee !. T.. robbers held
up train and secured s., SGD from the
express ear.
FROM all parts Of Minnesota and the
Dakotas weather reports indicated
that the 10th was the hottest Septen-
Der day in the history of the signal
service. the thermometer registering
100 degrees in the shade at some places
OK the 18th the nineteenth annual
interstate industrial exposition opened
in Chicago. and in ali the departments
the displays were the most complete
for years.
FLAMES destroyed the business por-
tion of Camargo. Ill
AT Portland and other places in Ore
gOn. several shocks of earthquake were
felt
AT the Alta mine at Virginia City,
New, five men were killed by a cave-in.
NEBRASKA democrats in convention
at Grand Island nominated Judge j.
IL. BroOdv for member of the state
supreme court and L, \. Erogan and
s. F. Hercaer for regents of the state
university.
Two ELEVATORS and the electric light
works at Hastings, Mimi, were burned.
Loss. 500, 900.
~ s'AAaNN Ivy tAds haoEhft NAAAb
won the western association pennant.
EVERETT NoORE and T.. Tate, rival
editors. fought street duel at sulphur
Springs, Tex, and both were killed
ROBERT ATWOOD and John Burba-
ker were struck bv a burlington. Cedar
Rapids * Northern train ut crossing
near Ninton. la. and killed
THE death OF Lorenz Brentano. a
member Of the FOrty-fifth congress.
occurred at his home in Chicago. aged
: years.
Ir was said that x-Presiient Bal
maceda, Of Chilli. had landed at Mem
doza, capital Of the Argentine province
by the same name
UNCLE SAM has bought Isl, 600 acres
of land in the Indian territory Of the
Indians for thirty-five cents an acre.
}. ". MONTGOMERY killed Miss May
Adams at Woodland. Cal. because she
refused TO marry him and then took his
own life.
THREE Indians-John, Dan aud Bill
SQuanos-were killed by Charles Ath-
erton and a man named Bradshaw in
a saloon quarrel at Bay Port. Mich.
N Grand Rapids, Mich. the stallion
Nelson not only broke his own record
but proved himself the peerof Allerton
by ;rotting mile in 2:iO-
The thermometer in several north
western states registered from 100 TO
100 in the shade on the 18th.
AN explosion in Van Sandt's jelly
factory at Monteville, O.. killed three
men and two little girls were fatally
injured
AT Eagle Pass. Tex. r. II. Duncan
was hanged for the murder of the VII
hanson family -four in numberl in
Sanssba county. Tex. in February,
1889, a-d Albert Morea. a negro wife
murderer. was executed at Savannah,
Ca.