River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-29

NEAR Cortland. o., a passenger tram
on the New York, Pennsylvania &
Ohio road collided with wild engine,
injuring six persons, two fatally.
A SECTION northwest of Miller, s. D.,
was swept by fire and hundreds of tons
of hay burned, and several farmers
were completely burned out
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows has changed the headquarters
of the order from Columbus, o.. to
Baltimore, Md.
AT San Antonio, Tex, J. a. Hart, a
gambler, killed his wife and >. IA took
his own life. No cause was known.
FREIGHT and passenger trains on the
Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne railroad col
lided near Shreve, O., and twelve per-
sons were killed and cremated and nine
others were injured.
REPUBLICANS of the Sixth district
of Wisconsin have nominated Emil
Baench for congress, and &. II. Rich
ardson is the democratic nominee in
the Fifth Michigan district
AT Lima, o., the worlds pacing rec
ord for a half-mile track was broken
by Wisconsin King. who made a mile
in 2:14.
CITIZENS riddled Henry Watson (col-
oredD with bullets at Durant, Miss, for
trying to iHcite race riot
THREE immigrants were killed in
wreck on the Burlington road near Sib-
ley, Ia
THE boy bicyclist of Minneapolis,
John s Johnson, broke all records at
independence. Ia, on the kite-shaped
track, going a mile in the remarkable
time of l:56 S-5.
THE next session of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows will be
held in Milwaukee.
FIRE destroyed the Union school
furniture building and an entire block
of adjoining buildings at Battle Creek,
Mich. the total loss being 500, 900.
An express train killed w. +. Walters
and wife, of Westerville, o., at the
state fair ground crossing in Columbus.
In tie Fifth district of Michigan the
republicans have renominated ChSles
Z. Belknap for congress.
IN Sandusky Maj Gen. John Pope
died at the Ohio soldiers home IN the
household of Gen. NJ. +. Force. the
commandant of the home. He was so
years of age.
FORTY persons in Cincinnati were
poisoned by drinking milk. and twenty
three of them were in a serious con-
dition.
AT Baltimore the new Iron Hall was
organized and Mr.. Somerby was elected
chief officer. The financial plan of the
new order is to pay $1,000 in seven
/ So. nh SSD0 ~,
years for about S225.
JAMES B. WEAVER. the peoples party
candidate for president, issued an adj
dress To the people saying he could not
continue his tour through the south on
account of the treatment he received.
FLAMES destroyed gambling house
at Thompson, \. D., and two gamblers
persisted in the flames.
AT her home in Adrian, Mich, Mrs.
Anna Chaffee celebrated her Tooth
birthday.
THREE highwaymen entered Benja-
min L. Snipe's bank at Roslyn, Wash,
covered the cashier and boolIkeeper
with revolvers and made away with
$1,000.
IN Missouri the peoples party have
nominated George w. Quinn for con-
gress in the Tenth district, j. l.. Par
sons in the Eleventh and j. ii. Garri-
son in the Twelfth. In the Seventh
Wisconsin district they have nomi-
mated Frank Powell.
In the Eureka mine in Bessemer
township, Mich, four men fell 200 feet
down shaft and were killed
Freight trains collided at New
Hampton. Ia, and eight persons were
killed and others We're injured
IN Denver j. p. Kelley, a gambler,
shot and killed his wife and then killed
himself Jealousy was the cause.