River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-04-07

INstate convention at Portland Oregon
prohibitionists nominated two congress-
men. judge of supreme court, presi-
Dental electors and delegates TO the
national convention.
FLAMES destroyed the steamer Golden
Rule at its docks in Cincinnati and five
persons lost their lives. The boat and
cargo was valued at $4,000.
JUDGE r. Y. BUsHs house at Halves
vile, Ky, was burned, and the Judge
! persisted in the flames.
IN Kansas hundreds of families have
/ lost everything through a destructive
prairie fire. William Dunn, in an II.
tempt to save his property, lost his life.
MINNESOTA democrats in state con-
vention at st. Paul elected ? alegates to
the national convention Instructed TO
vote for Cleveland for president The
platform opposes protection, favors re-
form in the system of tariff duties. and
demands free and unrestricted coinage
of both silver and gold.
ABOUT 100 houses were wrecked in a
cyclone at Nelson, Neb., and several
persons were injured and one killed.
MASKED robbers held up passenger
train at Weems, Ala, and the mail car
was rifled of all its re gistered letters.
A MOB hanged an unknown negro at
Millersburg, o. He was the only col
| Ored man in the county and refusal to
leave when ordered TO do so was the
only charge against him.
on the Burlington & Northwestern
railroad 40 miles north of Burlington,
la, train was blown from the track
and four persons were seriously injured.
BY an explosion in "a dynamite factory
at Bessemer, Ala, G.. 5. Hartley, Wal
ter Lake, Ed Boykin and Frank Boykin
were killed.
IL Kansas 4 cyclone wiped out the
village of Towanda and destroyed prop
erty in many other places. Over thirty
persons were killed and many others
were injured, some fatally. Terrific
storms also swept over portions of Ne
braska. Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and
Wisconsin, leaving death and deStruc-
ton in their wake. In South Haven,
Kan, the entire family of John Bury
master, five in all, were killed, and .he
family of William Little, five in num-
Der, persisted at Wellington, Kan.
AT Fairburn, Ga, Walter Cook, a
negro, was hanged for the murder Of
Andrew Kaiser in October last
A NEW brick building was blown over
upon three dwelling houses in Chicago,
crushing them and killing nine per-
sons. Eighteen others were badly in
jured
IL the business portion of Greenville,
Miss, flames destroyed thirty buildings
Loss. SlO0, 900.
FLAMES in New Orleans destroyed So
600 bales of cotton and six squares of
residences, causing a loss of So, 900, 600.
The fire started from cigarette which
some person threw among the Gotten.
The death of William Denamore, Of
East Liverpool, o., occurred at the aar
of 1903. He served in the war of 1872
and in the Mexican war.
A CONFESSION has been made by
Walter f. Shaw that he killed his moth
er and aunt with razor at Houston,
Tex, in order to get $40 with which to
continue a spree.
AT Waupaca, Wis. four men have
been indicted for tue murder of Banker
Mead in 1SS2.
IL Kansas the recent cyclone swept
away every building in the villages of
Vine Creek, Smolar and OalIville. and
thirty of the best residences in Omaha,
Neb. Other towns were badly dam
aged. The total loss of life was placed
at sixty.
ALLEN HARRISON shot and instantly
killed Bette Adams near Huntington,
w Va, because she refused to marry
him.