River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-10-13

A SON of Senator PETER was killed
by the wreckiug of freight train in
Kansas. of which he was the engineer.
REv. EDWARD ELLIS. of Milwaukee,
died suddenly in the First Baptist
church at Hudson, Wis, where he was
in attendance upon the Baptist state
anniversaries.
The Sharon will case, which has been
hanging fire so long in the California
courts. has been settled. the supreme
court declaring the so-called certificate
of marriage between William Sharon
and Sarah Althea Hill forgery.
In Lenone county. n. C., colored
Farmland named Wakefield fatally
shot and cut his wife and two eolored
men.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations have
been made as follows: Mississippi,
Third district. q. w. Gayles (rep.) +;
Rhode Island, First district. Melville
Bull (rep.); Second district, A. ID.
Capron (rep).
AT Detroit James Rogers and his
wife, an "a red couple, were found dead
IL, he bedroom of their residence. Gas
escaping from a coal stove was sup
posed to have been the cause of the
calamity.
WILLIAM J. JAMESON was sentenced
to be hanged at Quincy, Ill. for the
murder of Charles Aaron last April.
Mr. AND Mrs. PEAEsALL and young
grandson were burned to death in fire
which destroyed their home at Sand
Lake, Mich.
MILDRED Brown and John Williams
(colored) were hanged at Spartanburg.
) C. Williams crime was the killing
of Mayor Henneman. of Spartanburg,
and Mildred Brown, who is only
- years old, was hanged for the
cruel murder of baby.
THE dead body of DR. w. b. Akerly,
of Lisbon, la. who left his daughters
home near StanwOod September Is,
was found in field near the road. He
had been murdered and robbed.
AT Coatesville, Ind, Mrs. William
Sharp poured coal oil over her husband
while he was asleep and then applied
match. burning him To death. The
woman was said to he insane at the
time.
). ID. MATHER United States in
ternal revenue collector, was killed
and two other collectors were MORALLY
wounded in a fight with Tennessee
moonshiners.
WILLIAM WILSON was hanged at An
derson, 5 G., for the murder of his
wife.
was hanged at Newberry, 5. c., for
the murder of her infant February %
1 last
PRAIRIE fires were said to be raging
near Williston. \. ID. Over - miles
square had been burned over and much
property destroyed.
JoHN HoRAN, of Henry. ILL.,, went to
Lacon to attend a political meeting,
and becoming intoxicated, was killed
by the cars.
MILLIONS of grasshoppers have APP
peared in buchanan and adjoining
counties in Missouri and were rapidly
destroying the winter wheat.
Four men were killed IN a railway
wreck near Weston, w. Va.
NEAR Huron, ;. d., prairie fire
burned over stretch of country 10
mile wide and 20 miles long, and many
prosperous farmers lost everything.
FIRE destroyed the Georgia factory in
Clark county, Ga, the loss being $780,
coo.
IN a dense fog the steamer Premier
was struck by the steam collier Villa
nlette south of Port Townsend, Wash,
and five men were killed and seventeen
badly injured
WILLIAM CUMMINGS, AN old soldier,
walked into Cleveland. O., after a
tramp from California. He was after
his discharge papers.
Ar Memphis, Tenn, in a prize fight
between Jack Davis, of Texas, and
Dick Barker. of Louisville, the latter
received a blow which caused his death.
AT Piclsens, 5. c., Thomas Brooks
(eolored) was hanged for the murder of
Jerry Hugher, the town marshal of
Eastley. on the night of June 21, 1892.
Is South Dakota the democratic state
committee formally decided not TO fuse
with the peoples party.
JoHN DOwNEY lost twelve horses in a
burning stable in Chicago.