River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-12-15

JUDGE GRESHAM, of Chicago. IN
long opinion refused TO grant petition
TO compel interstate commerce wit
nesses TO testify and produce books,
holding that the court could not be
made subsidiary TO and a subordinate
auxiliary to "a non-judicial and admin
istrative body.
AT Meridian, Miss. John White (col-
ored) was hanged for the murder Of
James Logan. an officer, who was try
ing to srrest him Before his death
White confessed this crime and three
other murders. He gave his correct
name as Frank Pate Townes.
IN Kansas the official count of the
votes cast at the recent election shows
Weaver to have received 1853, Ill; Har-
rison. l57, 23T; Weaver's majority. 5,s74.
No votes were cast for Cleveland
Elk PRESIDENT HAYES. of Ohio, was
reelected president at the annual con-
gress in Baltimore of the National
Prison association Of the United States.
In Toledo, o., Joseph Roemer,
wealthy retired merchant, died sudden
ly from heart failure after having re-
sponded to a toast at banquet
CHARLES r MoULToS shot and in
stantly killed Mrs. Mary ). Storey, a
widow, at Seattle, Wash, because she
refused his attentions and then killed
himself.
In California the official vote at the
recent election was: Cleveland. III, 90s;
Harrison. III, 75o; Weaver, 1925; BID
well, 7.1s7. One republican elector
was chosen.
FRANK LEWIS and James Needles
fought during a revival in a church in
Monroe township, o., and both were
fatally injured.
In Chicago Mrs. Mary Mckinley died,
aged 100 years and ? months
FIRE destroyed the city armory at
Cleveland, O., the less being SlOO,
BECAUSE she refused to marry him
James Hargus, of Nevada. Mo-, fatal
/ ly shot Miss Pearl Mann and then
killed himself.
TWENTY-FIVE lives were lost in navi-
eating the great LAKES during the sea-
son just closed. The death list is much
longer than for many years in the lake
marine. In property the losses of the
season aggregate s2,05o.0OO.
In Montana the vote on presidential
electors at the recent election was:
| Harrison, 1s.SS3; Cleveland, 1854;
Weaver, 1859; Bidwell. SIT. Dixon
/ (dem) was defeated for congress by
Hartman (rep) by 220 votes
THE death of Martin Burke. one of
the three men convicted of the murder
of DIR. Cronin in Chicago in 1889 and
sentenced 10 life Imprisonment, oc-
I hn NJ -InIiaf nf
sumption. Only one of the three tDan
Coughlin) is now alive, O'Sullivan hav-
4 ing died last winter.
For more than two years no rain has
/ fallen in northwestern New Mexico
| and over Is, 600 head of cattle have d ed
| from starvation and lack of water.
STEPHEN HIRE and Dennis Mccarthy
| (whitel and Grant Thomas and Nelson
Lewis (colored) were hanged from the
same scaffold in the jailyard at Louis
vile, Ky, for murder. This was the
first quadruple hanging in the state.
| On the Rock Island railway the tel
egraphers went on a strike, and it was
thought they would be joined in their
struggle by the conductors and switch
men.
4 IN NOhhNNs bhO A0SChhS
of the 90, 600 ballots cast for congress-
man gives Belknap (rep) plurality
of two IN the district
OFFICIAL returns on the recount of
the vote of Nelson county, n. d.. give
a sufficient majority to elect all the
Weaver presidential electors.
Ii Chicago Charles A. Chanter, q
| botanist. aged SIS, from Kilbourne City.
| Wis. was crushed TO death by an as
cending elevator in the Masonic temple
and his mangied remains fell fifteen
stories to the bottom of the shaft.
FIRE in the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
way roundhouse at Salida, Col, caused
loss of $500, OO0
NEAR Lima. o., Fred Schnessler
worked for Farmer McAff, for some
time without getting pay. He asked
| McAff for his money, whereupon the
latter killed him with piece of wood.
MOB lynched Cornelius Coffee. who
shot Officers Dillon and Barton at Blue
field, w. Va.
IN the house of Ole r. Albertson at
York, n. D.. fire caused the death of
his two little children.
CONFIDENCE men swindled John
Daley, a wealthy farmer living near
Springfield, Mo-, aged rs years, out OF
50, GOO by the old gold brick scheme.
FLAMES swept away three squares of
business houses and residences at
| Plaquemine, La, causing "a loss of
! $50. 200.
THE oldest white woman in Mary
land, Miss Elizabeth Appleman, of Mid
| dletown. celebrated the 101st anniver-
| sary of her birth.
" Milwaukee fire that started in
| the art store of C. Hennecke g. Co.
caused a loss of $4,000