River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-10-06

JoHS u. WILSON. of La Crosse. Wis.
was elected grand chief in Place OF
Frank Sweeney at the annual meeting
in Dallas. Tex, of the switchunen's
Mutual Aid association.
THE peoples party in Wisconsin has
nominated Marsellus Audier for con-
gress in the Fifth district.
MASCOT lowered the worlds pa eng
record to 2:Os in the free-for-all pace at
Terre Haute. Ind.
By a cavern in shaft in the Nor RE
nine AT Ironwood. Mich, eleven mine n
were imprisoned resculng part v
was working. but with little prospect
of success before the men suffocated or
starved.
o. the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma
boou.ers set fire to the grass and thou
sands of acres were burned over, caus-
ing the loss of many cattle.
AT Mrs. Anna Norpahrs boarding
house in Kansas CITY seven persons
were poisoned. Maggie Moore, a vim
dictive dining-room girl. has fed and
she was suspected.
Is Michigan over $4,000 acres Of gov
eminent land were sold at prices rang
ing from s. TO SIP. 80 per acre.
Ar Brandon. Miss, James Scott,
negro. was hanged for the murder of
his wife.
FIRE destroyed thirteen buildings,
including the opera house, the bank.
post Office and Star Office at North
Bend. Neb.
THE whaling steamer Mary G.. Hume
:.
OF over two years and six months. Her
catch for the cruise was thirty-eight
whales. whose bone and oil repre-
scented a value of s4O0,00
AT Redding Cal. j. W. Smith killed
his wife and child and was soon after
lynched by a mob.
FLAMES destroyed fifty freight ears
and the transfer sheds of the New York.
Chi;.go q st. Louis railway in Chi
cago. the loss being 100000.
PETER HELDTs six children all died
of diphtheria within two weeks at RAJ
cine. Wis.
IN Kansas the democrats opposed to
fusion will hold state convention at
Topeka on the eth insf.
FIRE ruined the fairous signal sta
tion building at the summit of Pixies
Peak in Colorado.
AT the Union stock yards in South
Omaha, Neb., fire destroyed SO, 600
worth of sheds and burned or smoth-
cred 993 head of sheep.
The noted English forger. Lord Wal
ter : Beresford, alias Sidney Lascelles,
was sentenced at Rome. Ca. 10 six
years hard labor in the penitentiary IN
that state.
A FoRTUNE of -, 600, 600 has sallen to
anton Pilger, a farmer living near CO.
lumbus, o.
MICHIGAN prohibitionists have nomi-
mated p. r. Butler for congress in the
Third district.
AT Winamac. Ind. Theodore LIEN
By. aged 100 years, fell dead in the
midst OF a hearty laugh. lie had lived
/ in Indiana since 1918.
CHARLES JOHNSON, an attorney. and
son Of the wealthiest man in Evans
Vile. Ind. shot and killed Jacob App, 4
railroad engineer, during a quarrel at
"a club house in Evansville.
J. a. Looms and James Comes. acre.
nauts, were fatally injured by falling
/ from balloon while performing on
the horizontal bar at Peoria, Ill.
! Mrs. JAMES BENNELL was burned 10
crisp in a fire which destroyed her
I house at youngstown, o.
/ IN tit of jealousy David Cade killed
/ his wife near Whitehall, H.. and then
/ took his own life.
WIsCoNsI.s's supreme court has de-
clared the second apportionment of the
state unconstitutional, and the gov
ernor will call another special session
/ of the legislature to make a reappor-
/ tionment.
/ THE naval academy At Annapolis,
I Md. began its forty-eighth year on
! the LIST.
Ar Keol1uls. Ia, occurred the death Of
Aunt Mary Taylor (colored) aged over
+ 100 years.
PRAIRIE fires were doing immense
damage west of the Missouri river in
/ North Dakota.
JoHN JOHNSON and Jim Turner were
murdered by Osa Chambers and James
Wilson in quarrel near Jefferson
vile. Ind.
DuKING a quarrel at Mexican dance
near Kyle. Tex, Tom Porter was shot,
two Mexicans were killed and ore was
fatally injured.
SEVEN persons were killed during a
! storm which blew down a house they
4 were taking shelter Ia near Uvalde.
GEORGE MAHAN and Fred Melrit,
while driving across the railroad az
4 Cherubusco, Ind We're struck by an en-
CINE and both fatally injured