River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-22

prizc-fight at New Orleans defeated
Jack Dempsey, the champion middle
weight of America, in thirteen rounds
at Columbus, o., the supply of nat
ural gas is expended, and the fixtures
were being taken from the houses.
Ar Springfield. ILL.,, the Republican
Senatorial caucus ON the 18th nominat-
ed Ex-Governor r. j. oglesby to succeed
Charles b. Farwell as United States
Senator.
FLAMES in the Dickson block at Pc
Oria. H., caused loss of about $500, 600;
insurance, $4,000.
JONI c. HALL, San Francisco law
yer and trustee of two estates, confessed
to the embezzlement of S15O.O0O.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, counterfeit FIVE
dollar silver certificates were in circu-
Iation. The bill is of the department
series of 1856. check letter Il, signed w.
:. Rosecrans, Registrar, and Isaac w.
Hyatt. Treasurer. The paper is poor,
thin and of a yellowish tint The Wig
nette of General Grant is very poor
imitation of the original.
Ar Baltimore, Md, the 11-months'-
old baby of Oscar NJ. Spurrier was re-
which he had swallowed surreptitious-
~, including several buttons, eight
taclSs, four needles and eighteen pins.
1t was believed he would recover
The citizens of Lincoln County, Neb,
appeal for aid. claiming that 500 families
are suffering for the necessities of life.
II Kansas City Mrs. Maggie Hughes
was kicked to death by her drunken
husband.
BLoDGETT & OsGooD's planning mill at
st. Paul was burned. Loss, S2O0.OO
THE firm of A. c. Petrie & Co, whole
salers in lumber at Dallas, Tex, failed
for $4,000.
FLAMES at Milford. Neb., destroyed
Dunnegaris livery stable and fourteen
horses were burned to death.
THIRTY young Swedish people left
Omaha for Shanghai, China, where they
will become missionaries of the Swedish
Evangelical church. Arother party of
fifteen Will leave next month.
At Ellzhart, Ind. Mrs. Sarah Cable,
well-lznown woman, droppe1 dead of
heart disease while walking ON the
street She was so years of age.
Ale ucain ol LEWIS i4dItltTS- llt OlOcSb
citizen of Limestone County. Tenn, oc-
CURED at the residence of his daughter
in Shoalford Beat, at the age of %
years. He was "a soldier in the war of
1872.
Mrs. MATTE HETCHER. a poverty
stricken widow at Lehigh, Ind. T.,
cholzed her two little boys. aged and
8 years, to death and then, with them
in her arms, jumped into a spring and
was drowned.
On the 10th John Chambers, the old
est citizen of Morgan County, Ill, cele-
brated the Tooth anniversary of his
birth at Jacksonville.
JOHN JOHNSON, a 15-year old colored
boy, was hanged at Opelika, Ark, for
the murder of Jenkins Moore.
JAMES JOYCE was executed at the
penitentiary at Canon City, Col, for
the murder of man named Murray in
1889.
An explosion of natural gas wrecked
the Hotel Marvin at Findlay, o., valued
at $40, 600, and two girls were killed and
seven other persons were injured, some
fatally.
FIRE destroyed a large number of
business buildings at Horton, Kan.
Loss. 5000 600.
AT interchangeable, Mont. five men
were fatally shot by two masked men.
The cause for the shooting was not
known.
JUDGE J. A. WARDER, of Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, while crazed with liquor
shot and killed his son-in-law, ). NJ.
Fugette, and fatally shot his daughter.
Ar Upton. Ind, William Nair shot
his wife and then himself. Both died
instantly. jealousy was the cause.
\ PARTY of young people were coast
ing at Appleton, Wis. when the sled ran
into the river and Jay Briggs. Emma
Asid and May Cary were drowned.
FLAMES nearly wiped out the city Of
Alamosa, Col.
IRA Hicks and Arthur Ford, two Nor
mon elders, were badly beaten by
masked men and driven from Blount
County, Ala.
LITTLT WOUND said at the Pine
Ridge agency in South Dakota that
there would be no more fighting and
that the bucks realized this. and, while
not liking the thought of the surrender
of their guns. they would not use them
against the whites any more.
A DANGEROUS SO counterfeit bill
raised from 81 was in circulation at
III.
THE constitutional amendments
by the last Indiana Legislature
were discovered to be void owing to an
error of the clerk.